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Cheers ogg ! Very well explained. I feel I have a better understanding of the co-orbital system now :) & I will stop sitting in front of Celestia, centered on Janus spinning round & round ... waiting for Epimetheus to come hurtling in. :D BTW : Do people who frequent this forum have an IRC c...

Here is an except from the page that I read about Janus & Epimetheus ... & have been intrigued ever since ! Janus and Epimetheus are "co-orbital". The orbital radii of Janus and Epimetheus differ by only 50 km, less than the diameter of either. Their orbital velocities are thus very nearly e...

Cheers Malcolm :) I had a look at the Add-ons section but when I saw that it said ... These add-ons will only work with Celestia 1.2.0! If you don't already have this version of Celestia, get it now from the download page. I foolishly assumed that they would only work for that specific version of Ce...

Telesto & Calypso ( moons #10 & 11 of Saturn ) orbit in the LaGrange points of Tethys ( moon #9 of Saturn ). However while Tethys is in Celestia ... Telesto & Calypso are not. This is a pity as it would be interesting to visualise these orbits. Similarly , Dione & Helene share an orb...